Force always attracts men of low morality.
Albert EinsteinYou need Power only when you want to do something harmful, otherwise Love is enough to get everything done.
Charlie ChaplinMusic has a power of forming the character and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.
AristotleEverything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power.
Oscar WildeNearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character give him power.
Abraham LincolnAnyone can become angry - that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone's power and that is not easy.
AristotleThe most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice WalkerGoodness armed with power is corrupted, and pure love without power is destroyed.
Reinhold NiebuhrAs we look ahead into the next century leaders will be those who empower others.
Bill GatesWhat it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
AristotleMilitant feminists are pro-choice because it's their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men.
Rush LimbaughAll the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Victor HugoEvil is not power, it is ignorance and misuse of good.
James AllenRespect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
Clint EastwoodNever underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Robert A. HeinleinThe more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Aldous HuxleyJudge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius is above all force.
Gustave FlaubertEveryone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
Albert EinsteinThe pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaEducation is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson MandelaConcentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
Ronald ReaganAll men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
James MadisonBeliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them, or one that can literally save their lives.
Tony RobbinsEquality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Honore de BalzacWhere is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
Kahlil GibranPower does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John SteinbeckAny people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.
Abraham LincolnIt is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
Andrew JacksonThe greater the power the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund BurkePassion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
Oprah WinfreyShe had lost the art of conversation, but not unfortunately the power of speech.
George Bernard ShawA pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Friedrich NietzscheEvil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil but as a necessity, even a duty.
Simone WeilThe ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
Erich FrommCourage allows the successful woman to fail, and learn powerful lessons from the failure, so that in the end she didn't fail at all.
Maya AngelouAll the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Swami VivekanandaEulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
Ambrose BierceGiving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P. J. O'RourkeThere is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
John AdamsThe two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Leo TolstoyI believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers, by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself.
John DeweyThe attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Albert EinsteinThe tendency to aggression is an innate independent instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.
Sigmund FreudFree enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.
Paul RyanNo man deserves to be praised for his goodness who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth or an impotence of will.
Francois de La RochefoucauldAncient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.
AristotleFor the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.
Hubert H. HumphreyThe hate of men will pass and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Charlie ChaplinUnless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much power you have.
Oprah WinfreyPoliticians also have no leisure because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory or happiness.
AristotleForce does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
Jean-Jacques RousseauLiberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
James MadisonAdvertising nourishes the consuming power of men. It sets up before a man the goal of a better home, better clothing, better food for himself and his family. It spurs individual exertion and greater production.
Winston ChurchillI will insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it.
Mitt RomneyAll gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings and so give them the power to pull ours.
Aldous HuxleyThe thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
Oprah WinfreyTime crumbles things, everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
AristotleThe power of Thought the magic of the Mind!
Lord ByronThe first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
John RuskinMan is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence and love and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
James AllenOdd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
Virginia WoolfAlways there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
Douglas MacArthurLet him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
Baltasar GracianCapitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power, but that of self interest backed by force.
George Bernard ShawA good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.
AristotleAmbition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach, we are never satisfied.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowDoublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously and accepting both of them.
George OrwellI have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Abraham LincolnThe power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
Winston ChurchillThe man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
Herman HesseIn the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
Simone WeilThe youth and cheerfulness of morning are in happy analogy and of powerful operation, and if the distress be not poignant enough to keep the eyes unclosed, they will be sure to open to sensations of softened pain and brighter hope.
Jane AustenThe greater the state the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
Leo TolstoyThat deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe forms my idea of God.
Albert EinsteinIf you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.
Marcus AureliusThe truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
James MadisonBecause parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this this isn't him. This is not him.
Michael JacksonDesperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Benjamin DisraeliGetting and spending we lay waste our powers.
William WordsworthFreedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
Marcus Tullius CiceroTo describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.
Maya AngelouDo not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
Ayn RandThere is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
SophoclesWe have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Carl SaganThe power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.
Jane AustenWe should take care not to make the intellect our god, it has of course powerful muscles but no personality.
Albert EinsteinHe that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Samuel JohnsonPower concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Frederick DouglassMan's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
Frederick DouglassNow we have a problem in making our power credible and Vietnam is the place.
John F. KennedyWell I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion which has had a lot of money and power.
Alice WalkerI do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.
Harvey FiersteinThe good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
Theodor W. AdornoThe sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
William JamesUnconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
John F. KennedyWe are born to action, and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
Rush LimbaughOne without power does not mean lack of physical or mental strength.
Sai BabaI believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
James MadisonThe incentive to ambition is the love of power.
William HazlittWant balance in your life? Then sure get your own act together but don't forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.
Stephen CoveyEverything that enlarges the sphere of human powers that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do is valuable.
Samuel JohnsonWe do not need more intellectual power we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen we need more of the things that are unseen.
Calvin CoolidgeLiberty according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
John AdamsMastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
Lao TzuMoney is power and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
Andrew JacksonThe general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
John Stuart MillFortune which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
Julius CaesarWondrous is the strength of cheerfulness and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time will do it, better will preserve it longer than the sad or sullen.
Thomas CarlylePolitically the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
Alice WalkerThe power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard ShawEverything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
Wayne DyerOne reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus, we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life never deciding to master anything in particular.
Tony RobbinsConciliate a strong man by submission a wicked man by opposition and the one whose power is equal to yours by politeness or force.
ChanakyaAir power can either paralyze the enemy's military action, or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications a share of his straitened resources, far greater that what we need in the attack.
Winston ChurchillNo passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund BurkeNever allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
Eleanor RooseveltGreat nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
R. Buckminster FullerThis is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
C. S. LewisThe world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
Friedrich NietzschePower over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
Alexander HamiltonThe less effort the faster and more powerful you will be.
Bruce LeeSuch happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
John DeweyAll modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
Albert CamusDeep within man dwell those slumbering powers, powers that would astonish him that he never dreamed of possessing, forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.
Orison Swett MardenPower after love is the first source of happiness.
StendhalHe who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much but with less power.
PlatoIt's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept and you have to take it seriously.
Stephen KingEvery diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.
Andrew JacksonI can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting but I cannot suffering as I am do without something which is greater than I am which is my life the power to create.
Vincent Van GoghOnly through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.
Chuck PalahniukVote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
Ambrose BierceBecause your own strength is unequal to the task do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man, but if anything is within the powers and province of man believe that it is within your own compass also.
Marcus AureliusI have never seen opponents so silent about their record and so desperate to keep their power.
Paul RyanI repeat... that all power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise, that from the people and for the people all springs and all must exist.
Benjamin DisraeliThe truth does not require a majority to prevail ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.
Rush LimbaughThey are decided only to be undecided resolved to be irresolute adamant for drift solid for fluidity all-powerful to be impotent.
Winston ChurchillThe world is too much with us, late and soon getting and spending we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
William WordsworthThe world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.
John F. KennedyThe once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole and now sits in a prison cell.
George W. BushThe power of man has grown in every sphere except over himself.
Winston ChurchillThe reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
George EliotThe strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities our families our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America America. In our best days we can feel the vibrancy of America's communities large and small.
Mitt RomneyTo get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
Simone WeilIn the general course of human nature A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
Alexander HamiltonThe power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
James Arthur BaldwinNext to enjoying ourselves the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves or more generally in the acquisition of power.
Bertrand RussellOur scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King, Jr.In the Bible we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh an act of grace freely given.
Desmond TutuIn every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.
Francis BaconThe most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.
Wilson MiznerThe constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress, therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
George WashingtonThere are powers inside of you which if you could discover and use would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
Orison Swett MardenPower is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters one thing, to be able to dare!
Fyodor DostoevskyMaking fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
P. J. O'RourkeThe selfishness must be discovered and understood before it can be removed. It is powerless to remove itself neither will it pass away of itself. Darkness ceases only when light is introduced, so ignorance can only be dispersed by Knowledge, selfishness by Love.
James AllenLife is thickly sown with thorns and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.
VoltaireHe who possesses intelligence is strong, how can the man that is unintelligent be powerful? The elephant of the forest, having lost his senses by intoxication, was tricked into a lake by a small rabbit.
ChanakyaIn the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.
Alexander HamiltonNever forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love prayer and forgiveness.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
VoltaireNew nobility is but the act of power but ancient nobility is the act of time.
Francis BaconThe man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMy great comfort is that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers, I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.
Lord ByronIf the people are happy united wealthy and powerful we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
Edmund BurkeIf you must break the law do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
Julius CaesarEvery human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose to respond to change.
Stephen CoveyA man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
Henry Ward BeecherWisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever, no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself, no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWe are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
Stephen CoveyThere will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers and political power, and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
PlatoExcessive fear is always powerless.
AeschylusIt is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
Eric HofferMy relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerJustice and power must be brought together so that whatever is just may be powerful and whatever is powerful may be just.
Blaise PascalGod our Creator has stored within our minds and personalities great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
Abdul KalamWhen anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.
Billy GrahamPower is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are you aren't.
Margaret ThatcherOn the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Friedrich NietzscheBut to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
Alan WattsPower will intoxicate the best hearts as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
Charles Caleb ColtonSound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
Og MandinoI don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.
Yogi BerraThere is none made so great but he may both need the help and service and stand in fear of the power and unkindness even of the meanest of mortals.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest.
George W. BushI protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed I should instantly close with the offer.
Thomas HuxleyNot necessity not desire - no the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health food a place to live entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
Friedrich NietzscheThe momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come we can know that His purposes are just and true.
George W. BushThe radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza let alone cooking it.
Stephen HawkingWar has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound, its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
Friedrich NietzscheChristianity is not the faith of the complacent the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley Wilberforce Bonhoeffer John Paul the Second and Billy Graham. Each showed in their own way the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ.
Mitt RomneyAll the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
Ronald ReaganWoes and wonders of Power that tonic hell synthesis of poison and panacea.
Emile M. CioranThat all-softening overpowering knell / The tocsin of the soul - the dinner-bell.
Lord ByronThe monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
Francis BaconDemocracy shows not only its power in reforming governments but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.
Andrew JacksonPower is action, the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
Honore de BalzacWhen power leads man toward arrogance poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts poetry cleanses.
John F. KennedyNothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
OvidArbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
George WashingtonThe atom bomb was no "great decision." It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
Harry S. TrumanConcentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
Milton FriedmanOh while I live to be the ruler of life not a slave to meet life as a powerful conqueror and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
Walt WhitmanBe Silent yourself that will induce Silence in others. Do not fall into the habit of shouting talking long and loud. Reduce contacts to the minimum. Carry with you an atmosphere of quiet contemplation wherever you happen to be. The less you talk the more will become your mental power. With the increase in your mental capacity there will be increase in your power of discrimination too. Consequently you will give up individual discrimination . Because of this you will begin to consider the good of the world at large rather than your own individual welfare. You must cultivate such broad feelings from this young age itself.
Sai BabaThe most powerful force in the universe is gossip.
Dave BarryIt is certain in any case that ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
James Arthur BaldwinMischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.
Andrew JacksonPower is not alluring to pure minds.
Thomas JeffersonIt is certainly more agreeable to have power to give than to receive
Winston ChurchillI'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words I think are very powerful and they convey an intention.
Drew BarrymoreA horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong powerful beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.
Pam BrownWhat we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
C. S. LewisEvery man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
Ayn RandTo be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIt is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
James AllenThe atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.
Lyndon B. JohnsonNor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity, or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
Kahlil GibranIt takes tremendous discipline to control the influence the power you have over other people's lives.
Clint EastwoodTo make no mistakes is not in the power of man, but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
PlutarchI would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy without pollution or global warming.
Stephen HawkingThe demon that you can swallow gives you it Joseph Campbell
I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint its wealth with our wisdom its power with our purpose.
John F. KennedyReligions which condemn the pleasures of sense drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
Bertrand RussellUse power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
George W. BushThe United States is like giant boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.
Winston ChurchillThere is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
Honore de BalzacPower always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
John AdamsA mountain is broken even by a thunderbolt: is the thunderbolt therefore as big as the mountain? No he whose power prevails is really mighty, what is there in bulk?
ChanakyaA powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
Marcel ProustThe two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
EpictetusWhoever is new to power is always harsh.
AeschylusEverything is generated through your own will power.
Ray BradburySo they [the Government] go on in strange paradox decided only to be undecided resolved to be irresolute adamant for drift solid for fluidity all-powerful for impotence.
Winston ChurchillMagnetism as you recall from physics class is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.
Dave BarryThe people are the only legitimate fountain of power and it is from them that the constitutional charter under which the several branches of government hold their power is derived.
James MadisonThe world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
ChanakyaMost powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaRank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
Peter DruckerThe great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage, and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.
Andrew JacksonThe measure of a man is what he does with power.
PlatoPower and speed be hands and feet.
Ralph Waldo EmersonKindness is in our power even when fondness is not.
Samuel JohnsonLove is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
Theodor W. AdornoI am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were I should be quite ready to dictate.
Winston ChurchillCommunism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
Vladimir LeninWe cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful just as strong just as well-funded.
Barack ObamaLiberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
Marcus Tullius CiceroYou are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it however.
Richard BachThe almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others nor our own powerlessness stupefy us.
Theodor W. AdornoNew York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
Frank Lloyd WrightPassions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe